т. Krestinsky!

Thank you for your letter about Rykov. Take measures to protect the Bukharins. B. Bukharin's wife must go to a sanatorium for a long time. They say she is seriously ill1.

N.I. Bukh[ary]n must be kept out of politics. Let him stay now until his heart recovers, and then visit his wife from time to time. Check: out of politics!

Hi!

Lenin.

28/I.

Instruction to the Secretary

Please send through P.P. Gorbunov to Berlin, purely conspiratorially, sewing and so on.

Fond 2, op. 1, d. 24747 - autograph.

1Polpresidency of the RSFSR in Germany, NN Krestinsky on the state of health of NI Bukharin and his wife - NM Bukharina reported: "Nikolai Ivanovich is severely exhausted, on the basis of this exhaustion strongly developed neurasthenia, the heart is not in good order, but no organic damage yet ... My impression of Nikolai Ivanovich is that he needs to stay in a sanatorium or, perhaps, first in a sanatorium and then somewhere in the mountains for a total of at least two months to fully recover his strength and ability to work....

Nadezhda Mikhailovna's situation is more serious. The process in her lungs has already passed, but on the grounds of internal secretion disease and severe exhaustion, her nerves are badly out of order and there are signs of sugar" (RCCHIDNI, f. 5, op. 1, d. 1089, l. 3).